Head of Myra, (sculpture).

Head of Myra, (sculpture).

Zorach, William, 1889-1966, sculptor.

Head of Myra, (sculpture).

Myra, (sculpture).

Pentallic marble.

Approx. H. 20 in. Approx. W. 15 in.

(Inscribed:) Zorach/43 signed

Portrait female -- Indenbaum, Myra Miriam -- Bust

Restricted Owner, Bath, Maine

Whitney Museum of American Art 1945 Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1945, no. 56.

Myra Miriam Indenbaum was an art student, and monitor, in Zorach's Art Student classes in the early 1940s. There are at least four pencil sketches used as studies for the bust, and they can be seen in an article appearing in American Weekly, Dec. 6, 1942.

Zorach, Tessim, Zorach Inventory WZ-48, 1991.

Boggs, Deirdre, 2001.

Tarbell, Roberta K., "Catalogue Raisonne of William Zorach's Carved Sculpture," Ph.D., University of Delaware, 1976, no. 139.

Tarbell, Roberta K., "Catalogue Raisonne of William Zorach's Carved Sculpture," Ph.D., University of Delaware, 1976, pg. 515.

New York Times, Jan. 7, 1945.

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